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Flute Tenor Saxophone Euphonium has lived ever since. One of the many honors bestowed upon Rosa Parks, is a boulevard named after her, located in downtown Detroit. For me, Rosa Parks Marcela DeFaria Lena Cuglietta Michael Principe PROGRAM NOTES stands for the willingness to challenge boundaries and cross over them. Jenny Kampmeier Alex van Duuren Turbine, the composer states: Danielle Miller Bari Saxophone “I’m afraid of flying. This piece was my way of dealing with that. The first three “In the fall of 1999, I had the pleasure of attending a Sunday church service Shannon Parramore Mike Boniface Tuba John Corigliano Igor& Stravinsky Michael Daugherty JohnStravinsky Mackey Friends minutes are rough, grinding, and tense, as the jet engine builds up speed (through with Rosa Parks, at St. Matthew African Methodist Episcopal Church in Elizabeth Saller Camilo Otalora texture, not tempo), and eventually goes racing down the runway. Once the jet Detroit… After the Church service, Rosa Parks told me her favorite piece of Tina Tso Trumpet Matt Romano takes off, though, the music changes, and we realize that flying isn’t so bad. In fact, music was the traditional African American spiritual, “Oh Freedom.” Fragments Peter Duarte it can be beautiful once the plane is airborne. But in the back of my mind, I’m of this melody are played in musical canons by the trombone section, echoing Clarinet Taylor Graham Percussion always aware that we’re up quite high – and our lives (and that beauty) depend on the voices of many generations of African American preachers in Detroit Kira Bokalders Chris Heffner Andrew Aranow these massive pieces of machinery. If that machine (in this case, the pulse of the and throughout America. In addition to the soulful trombones, I composed Russell Brown David Holland Jarrett Branch percussion) should fail, we’d all be in serious trouble, so I just keep my knuckles a musical motive which I associate with Rosa Parks. It is first heard in the Jennifer Burton Daniel Schilling Beth Dippon gripped to the armrest, look out at the clouds, think pretty thoughts, and hope that woodwinds and vibraphone. These lyrical sections alternate with a turbulent Peter Geldrich Kirstin Schmitt Matt Filosa the pulse of that engine never lets up.” bus ride, evoked by atonal polyrhythms in the bass drum reminds us that while Geoff Gilliand Ian McLeod - John Mackey progress was made in civil rights in the twentieth century, there is still much to Kyle Rowan Horn Rickie Santiago be done in the twenty-first century.” Heidi Schultheis Katie D’Elia Chris Storey Stravinsky completed his Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments in 1924, a time of - Michael Daugherty Jennifer Schundler Craig Giordano Debra Traficante Neoclassicism for him and an important period for his piano writing. The contrapuntal Jaclyn Surber Jackie Hancock sections of the work are reminiscent of Bach, and the Brandenburg Concerti. The work Regarding Gazebo Dances, the composer states: Ricky Williams Brenda Luchsinger Piano is in three movements, the outer movements being especially Baroque in nature and the “Gazebo Dances was originally written as a set of four-hand piano pieces Miranda Morris Tane Dekrey lyrical second movement more Romantic. The second movement has a wide expressive dedicated to a certain one of my pianist friends. I later arranged the suite for Oboe Andrew Roy nature at times, brooding and Mahler-like, taking advantage of a myriad of chamber orchestra and concert band, and it is from the latter version that the title is drawn. Laura Antoni Harp combinations possible with the varied wind colors. The concerto accompaniment consists The title Gazebo Dances was suggested by the pavilions often seen on village Margo Monroe Trombone Dolly Roberts of two flutes and piccolo, two oboes and English Horn, two clarinets, two bassoons (one greens in towns throughout the countryside, where public band concerts are given Kira Palmer Erik Augereau doubling contrabassoon), four horns, four trumpets, three trombones, tuba, three string on summer evenings. The delights of that sort of entertainment are portrayed in Joel Brown String Bass basses and timpani. this set of dances, which begins with a Rossini-like Overture, followed by a rather Bassoon John Jenkins Steven Landis peg-legged Waltz, and a long-lined Adagio, and a bouncy Tarantella.” Nicholas Cohen Stephanie Mair - John Corigliano Jillian Coons Moises Paiewonsky Rosa Parks Boulevard for Symphony Band was commissioned by the University of Shannon Lowe Kody Wallace Michigan Symphony Band. Its first performance was given by the University of Michigan Producer: John Laverty Microphones: AKG C-414TL-II, Da Un Symphony Band, conducted by H. Robert Reynolds in Detroit, Michigan on April 6, 2001. Sennheisser mhk-40. vid ive Of the work, the composer writes: Recorded by: David St. Onge. Alto Saxophone A rsi Recorded May 7-9, 2006 Mixer: Yamaha o1v96 recorded to Nick Reardon . ty o y “Rosa Parks Boulevard pays tribute to the woman who helped set in motion the Mark Masters • 10815 Bodine Road, Clarence, NY 14031 Wa f Flo phon Masterlink ML-9600 at 24 bit. Derek Savko Phone: 716.759.2600 • www.markcustom.com P 2006 • 6565-MCD yb rida Wind Sym modern civil rights movement by her refusal to move to the back of the bus in righ 1955 Montgomery, Alabama. In 1957, she came to Detroit, Michigan, where she Editing: Dave St. Onge & t, Co iano David Waybright. Edited on: Sadie Artimus nductor • Ursula Oppens, P Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the American Composer’s Orchestra, and the Dr. David Waybright Ursula Oppens orchestras of Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco, and Milwaukee. Abroad, she has played Director of Bands Pianist with such orchestras as the Berlin Symphony, Orchestra de la Suisse Romande, the Deutsche Symphonie, the Scottish BBC, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. She has also played at the Aspen, Tanglewood, Santa Fe, Edinburgh, Bath and Holland Festivals, among others. In Dr. David A. Waybright received his Bachelor of Arts and Ursula Oppens is one of the few pianists before the public recent seasons, Ms. Oppens traveled to Havana, Cuba to perform Copland’s Piano Concerto Master of Arts degrees at Marshall University and the Doctor today who has won equal renown as an interpreter of the with the Havana Symphony, and appeared in Dublin, Ireland as soloist in the Piano Concerto of Musical Arts degree in orchestral conducting from the established repertoire and a champion of contemporary by Henry Cowell as well as in a televised performance with the Orchestra of La Scala in Italy. Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He taught initially music. Her performances of music old and new are marked at Wahama High School in Mason, West Virginia and since by a powerful grasp of the composer’s musical intentions and An enduring commitment to integrating new music into regular concert life has led Ms. that time has served as Director of Bands at Ferrum College, an equally powerful command of the keyboard’s resources. Oppens to commission and premiere many compositions, including works by Elliott Carter, Plymouth State College, and Director of Bands and Orchestra John Harbison, Julius Hemphill, Gyorgy Ligeti, Witold Lutoslawski, Conlon Nancarrow, During the 2005-06 season Ms. Oppens has performed at McNeese State University. Dr. Waybright is currently Tobias Picker, Frederic Rzewski, Joan Tower, and Charles Wuorinen. A co-founder of in New York at the Aaron Davis Center playing music of Director of Bands at the University of Florida, where he holds the rank of professor and Speculum Musicae, Ms. Oppens has recorded extensively. She received two Grammy Tania Léon; at the Miller Theatre in a new work by Frederic Rzewski; and at Zankel Hall is the head of the conducting area. He directs the wind symphony and supervises the band nominations: for her Vanguard recording of Frederic Rzewski’s “The People United Will in a Meredith Monk program. She also appeared in recital at the Einstein’s 1905 Festival at program and the graduate and undergraduate conducting curricula. Dr. Waybright is in Never Be Defeated,” the Perimeter Institute of Waterloo, Ontario; in Tucson, Arizona with the Pacifica Quartet demand as a guest conductor and clinician with wind bands, orchestras, and choirs, and has and for “American in the Piano Quintet by Dmitri Tymoczko; in Elliott Carter’s “Dialogues” at Pittsburgh’s appeared in that capacity in more than 30 states, throughout Europe, Asia and Australia. He Piano Music of “Music on the Edge” and with the Northwestern University Symphony in Evanston; in has held residencies at many of the nation’s leading music schools. In addition, he is active Our Time,” a classic several performances with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in its Elliott Carter Festival; in the commissioning and performance of new music and has won the praise of composers compilation of 20th and with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra in Lou Harrison’s Piano Concerto at the Orange such as Dana Wilson, Dan Welcher, Michael Torke, Donald Grantham, John Corigliano century American County Performing Arts Center, among other engagements. During the summer of 2005 and Leslie Bassett for his interpretation of their works. There are many recordings available piano music on Ms. Oppens performed Elliott Carter’s “Dialogues” at the Tanglewood Festival and was featuring the University of Florida Wind Symphony under his direction. Dr. Waybright is the Music & Arts heard in recital at the International Keyboard Institute and Festival at the Mannes College an elected member of the American Bandmasters Association and a lifetime member of label. Ms. Oppens of Music; she also participated in the Southeastern Piano Festival at the University of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles. He is also a member of the was appointed John South Carolina, at the Montreal Chamber Music Festival, at the Las Vegas Music Festival, at College Band Director’s National Association, Music Educators National Convention and Evans Distinguished Maverick Concerts with the Rossetti Quartet and at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival Florida Music Educators Association.